Example sentences of "was a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees , The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas , The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor , And the highwayman came riding |
| 2 | The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor . |
| 3 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 4 | The Wembley electoral college formula , giving the unions a bigger say in electing Labour 's leader than either activists or parliamentarians , was a triumph of defiance over common sense . |
| 5 | Theirs was a triumph of history over geography , of imagination over reality . |
| 6 | The Annual Conference at Northampton in May 1992 was a triumph of willpower over weakness . |
| 7 | • One senior Mercedes-Benz executive admitted the vulgar V12 badge on the C-pillar of the S-class was a triumph of marketing over design and quickly added that it was a delete option intended for the Japanese and Americans . |
| 8 | And then , of course , come along and er for while there was a competition with chasers over the forest , you know one running either just in front , or just behind the other , sort of thing . |
| 9 | We had the hail stones , he said he could look out and there was a cover of snow over everything |
| 10 | On 14 and 15 October — the latter date was the 150th general congregation — there was a touch of drama over the document on the Jews , or , more correctly , the Declaration on Non-Christian Religions , of which the earlier declaration on the Jews now formed a part . |
| 11 | The outcome was a victory for household over institutional authority : the teacher , transferred to an even smaller school , in an even remoter oasis , was seen to have been punished . |
| 12 | The birth of commercial television in the early fifties was a victory for money over breeding , of corporate power over paternalism . |
| 13 | That was a victory in history over the power of sin and death . |
| 14 | The school 's curriculum manager and acting vice-principal , Phil Dean , said there was a lot of uncertainty over the new number seven overlapping the old C and D grades . |
| 15 | There was a debate among anthropologists over the question of origins . |
| 16 | But the price of obtaining the destruction of working-class power and organization was a loss of control over the state by the bourgeoisie and nobility . |